Champalimaud Research, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal; Present address: Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, School of Genetics and Microbiology and School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Champalimaud Research, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2018 Oct;52:139-148. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.06.005. Epub 2018 Jun 22.
Innate responses are often sexually dimorphic. Studies of female specific behaviors have remained niche, but the focus is changing as illustrated by the recent progress in understanding the female courtship responses and egg-laying decisions. In this review, we will cover our current knowledge about female behaviors in these two specific contexts. Recent studies elucidate on how females process the courtship song. They also show that egg-laying decisions are extremely complex, requiring the assessment of food, microbial, predator and social cues. Study of female responses will improve our understanding of how a nervous system processes different challenges.
先天反应通常具有性别二态性。对女性特定行为的研究仍然很少，但随着对女性求偶反应和产卵决策理解的最新进展，研究重点正在发生变化。在这篇综述中，我们将介绍目前对这两种特定情况下女性行为的了解。最近的研究阐明了雌性如何处理求偶歌曲。它们还表明，产卵决策非常复杂，需要评估食物、微生物、捕食者和社会线索。对女性反应的研究将增进我们对神经系统如何处理不同挑战的理解。
